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again again wishing it success. We would give a word

of caution, however, to the editor as to hot-headed contributors such as Mr. J. Charles Cox, who writes about the "Household Books of Sir Miles Stapleton, 1656-1705." It would be well to leave Lord Macaulay alone. "An imaginative historian who could never have studied diaries, letters, or private accounts of the days he described" ! What is the good of an editor if he lets such nonsense pass?